Using the Developer: Show Running Extensions option inside of the Command Palette (ctrl + shift + p) you can see extension load times.
Using the Developer: Show Running Extensions option inside of the Command Palette (ctrl + shift + p) you can see extension load times.
In combination with the initial startup time answer from @Daan Breur, I'm using htop to see them also during runtime.
If you scroll to the right, you gonna see something like
Applications/Visual Studio Code.app/Contents/Frameworks/Code Helper (Plugin).app/Contents/MacOS/Code Helper (Plugin) --type=utility --utility-sub-type=node.mojom.NodeService --lang=en-GB --service-sandbox-type=none --dns-result-order=ipv4firs
.../MacOS/Code Helper (Plugin) --ms-enable-electron-run-as-node --experimental-modules ../.vscode/extensions/svelte.svelte-vscode-107.12.0/node_modules/svelte-language-server/bin/server.js --node-ipc --clientProcessId=92690
or
.../.vscode/extensions/ms-vscode.vscode-typescript-next-5.3.20231014/node_modules/typescript/lib/tsserver.js
which seems in my case typescript and svelte extentions
Ive used VS code for the last 6 years of programming. But recently its gotten so slow. It doesnt find my imports, doesnt format on save, it just lags everything besides the stupid description popups when you hover unimportant elements..
So whats my alternative? Is there some settings I can change to help me out or should i abandon ship and use another IDE?
Recently updated my laptop, and after installing VS Code and Python on the new machine, I've noticed that the Python extension takes forever to load any time VS Code is (re)started. I haven't timed it exactly, but probably at least a minute or more, just to load an extension on a 'gaming' laptop with oodles (technical term!) of RAM, disk space, and processor power to spare.
Nothing particularly exotic as far as extensions loaded - Python (obviously), Pylance, Jupyter, Remote - WSL, Vim, Visual Studio Intellicode and vs-code icons. Even with everything disabled but Python, Pylance and Jupyter, it doesn't change - and the extension very obviously holding things up is the Python one.
Nothing too exotic about the Python install... vanilla 3.8.6, from python.org, using virtualenvs for development. Even with the base install, and nothing much beyond pylint, black and virtualenvwrapper-win installed via pip... this seems really, really, really odd.
Any ideas?
It turned out it was a particular VS Code extension for me.
Angular Language Service. Disabling this made it lightning quick.
Try this to see if it is a particular extension.
- Open Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P)
- Type in "Disable all installed extensions"
- Enable them one by one or in groups and test the intellisense speed
The problem might be with wrong setting configuration.
You might want to make sure these setting are on:
Controls if suggestions should automatically show up while typing
"editor.quickSuggestions": {
"other": true,
"comments": false,
"strings": false
},
Controls the delay in ms after which quick suggestions will show up
"editor.quickSuggestionsDelay": 10,